Don’t Miss this…Good Life Guy’s Spanish Cooking Demonstration
Williams Sonoma – Bradley Fair ~ Friday June 7th
I’ll be cooking Spanish Chicken, Grilled Steak & Mushrooms, and Garlic Shrimp!
Recipes Provided…and you get to taste everything too 🙂
Starts at 7:00 p.m. – Reservations required, call 313 636-5990
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My first guest this week is Linda Murphy with her new book “American Wine – The Ultimate Companion to the Wines and Wineries of The United States.”
Over the past three decades, a wine revolution has been taking place across the United States. There are now more than 7,000 American wine producers–up from 440 in 1970–and the best bottles are every bit as good as the finest wines of Europe. American Wine is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference on the wines, wineries, and winemakers of America. Written by world-renowned wine author Jancis Robinson and U.S. wine expert Linda Murphy, this book is the natural companion to the international bestseller, The World Atlas of Wine. More than 200 breathtaking photographs, profiles of key personalities, and informational graphics bring to life the vitality of American wine culture and 54 detailed full-color maps locate key regions, wineries, and vineyards. Organized by geographical region, American Wine concentrates on areas such as California, Oregon, and Washington that produce the best-known wines, and ventures across the country to introduce gems such as racy Rieslings from Michigan and New York, Bordeaux-style wines from Virginia, bright-fruited Tempranillo from Texas and southern Oregon, and characterful Nortons from the Midwest. Read some of Linda’s Columns at Wine Review on Line!
Linda Murphy
About Linda Murphy:
One of a handful of wine communicators with an international reputation, Jancis Robinson writes daily for JancisRobinson.com (voted first-ever Wine Website of the Year in the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers Awards 2010), weekly for The Financial Times, and bi-monthly for a column that is syndicated around the world. She is also editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, co-author with Hugh Johnson of The World Atlas of Wine, co-author of Wine Grapes – A complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavours, each of these books recognized as a standard reference worldwide.
An award-winning TV presenter, she is invited all over the world to conduct wine events and act as a wine judge. In 1984 she was the first person outside the wine trade to pass the rigorous Master of Wine exams and in 2003 she was awarded an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen, on whose cellar she now advises.
She loves and lives for wine in all its glorious diversity, generally favouring balance and subtlety over sheer mass.
In the second half, Dave Sollo joins me in studio to talk about Grace Hill Winery in White Water Kansas. Dave, wife Natalie and son Jeff are running one of the finest wine production facilities in the Midwest. The vineyard, located 20 minutes North of Wichita, opened in 2009 and has over eight acres and 14 varieties planted. With the addition of the 2000-square-foot event center in 2011 and the 6000-square-foot production building expansion, Grace Hill is producing some fine Kansas wine and is a great destination winery close to Wichita.
The Winery is open for tours and free tastings Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 12-5PM with no appointment necessary. Tours and free tastings are also available Monday through Thursday by appointment. Call (316) 799-2511 or email info@gracehillwinery.com to set yours up today! www.gracehillwinery.com
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
The Wines of Grace Hill Winery
Many of the Grace Hill wines are available at Jacob Liquor Exchange and those that aren’t can be ordered. I recently had the 2010 Cabernet Franc and was very impressed. It just goes to show you, while they have had good success with French American Hybrid grape varieties, vinifera like Cab Franc can do well in Kansas. Yet another excuse to drive to White Water and visit Grace Hill!
6310 South Grace Hill Road
Whitewater, KS 67154
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